While some pieces of conceptual architecture channelize out imagine toward distant planets , others plunge us into the depths of the ocean . These submerged metropolis concept , dream up by illustrator , architects , and designers , imagine the sorts of structure we might live beneath the watery aerofoil .
Syph, Australia
A aggregation of particularise organisms function as a whole , with some cod being industrial , energy , or intellectual nourishment producers . Dreamed up by Arup Biomimetics , exhibit at the 2010 Venice Biennale and pictured above .
( viaBrisbane Architecture Blog )
Sub Biosphere 2
This self - contained metropolis would drift on the surface of the sea or hide in the depths , and would be used for aquanauts and oceanographic life sciences . design by Phil Pauley .
( viaPhil Pauley )
The Gyre, a floating underwater skyscraper
This pattern imagine an inverted skyscraper , plunge down to a deepness of 1,312 ft ( 400 G ) with a full floor domain of 2.28 million sq ft ( 212,000 sq m ) . Its four wings are big enough to accomodate the world ’s biggest ships . plan by the British Columbia - based Zigloo in 2010 .
( viaZigloo )
Poseidon Undersea Resorts, near Katafinga Island, Fiji
It was a proposed chain of submerged five - star recourse 40 feet submerged in a 5,000 acre lagoon few eld ago .
( viaPoseidon Resorts )
Lady Landfill
The Lady Landfill was designed by three Serbian architects , Milorad Vidojevic , Jelena Pucarevic and Milica Pihler for the eVolo 2011 Skyscraper Competition . The elephantine skyscraper would compile and recycle the waste of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into an energy source .
( viaeVolo )
Underwater Skyscraper 7
These buildings are design to be pelagic research stations and underwater cities for about 6000 people . They would also contain a vast phone number of extra facilities – cinemas , fitness golf club , recreation spaces and a hospital . design by the Eindhoven - based Dutch De Bever Architecten BNA .
( viaBuilding Indonesia )
Water-Scraper, 2010
The Malayan Sarly Adre Sarkum ’s concept envisions a ego - sufficient social system : it bring forth its own electricity using solar , wind and undulation power , has its own food for thought agriculture system and a small forest on the control surface . The energising Energy Department - using system of ballasts is meant to keep the Water - Scraper upright piano .
( viaevolo.us )
Man’s Future Beneath The Sea, 1968
From the Christian Bible Explorers of the Deep : Man ’s Future Beneath the Sea .
( viaPaleofuture )
City Under The Sea, 1964
From Das Neue Universum ( The New Universe ) , created by Klaus Bürgle .
( viaRetro - Futurismus )
Undersea Cities, 1954
From the book Out of Time : Designs for the Twentieth - Century Future ( 1954 ) . The picture show was published on the cover of if cartridge holder in January of 1954 .
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